- Dutch filmmaker Maaike Engels was making documentary in Calais Jungle
- She was filming when her colleague Teun Voeten was attacked by migrants
- Three young men armed with knife and pepper spray tried to steal camera
- Pair saved when other migrants came to their rescue and ran attackers off
This is the shocking moment migrants armed with a 'big knife' and pepper spray attacked journalists in Calais' notorious Jungle on Saturday.
Dutch
filmmaker Maaike Engels was filming with her colleague Teun Voeten when
he was attacked and pushed into a tent by the three young men as they
attempted to steal his camera.
Ms
Engels continued to film even as she tried to fight the youngsters off,
kicking one when he approached her with a knife before the three
attackers were chased off by other refugees who threw stones at them.
Dutch filmmaker Maaike Engels was
filming in the Calais Jungle with her colleague Teun Voeten when he was
attacked and pushed to the ground by the three young men who tried to
steal his camera
One of the youngsters was clutching a large knife (pictured right) during the attempted mugging on Saturday
Following
the incident Ms Engels, who was in France filming a new documentary
called Calais: Welcome to the Jungle, wrote on her Facebook page:
'Within every community, among the good ones, you'll always find a
couple of a**holes.
'The
Jungle is no exception. But I guess living under such deplorable
conditions the less creative, intelligent and ambitious are very likely
to become small criminals, because they've got nothing higher to aim
at.'
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